This here is the basic outline I have for Act I of Knights of the Republic. It’s still sort of rough, I don’t know if the characters will shine through in the way I intended or if it’s far too long or short, so any and all feedback is welcome here.

PREFACE / BACKGROUND DETAILS

The THIRD GREAT CLONE WAR, fought between the Galactic Republic and the Corporate Sector Authority, has been raging for over a decade. The most elite warriors of the Republic, THE HOLY KNIGHTS OF THE JEDI ORDER, have had their numbers depleted by the constant warfare. Desperate to recover their numbers, the Order has decided to try to recall as many retired, discharged or otherwise departed ex-Knights as possible to assist in the war effort.
OBI-WAN KENOBI, a famed General who has become disillusioned with fighting on the frontlines, has been dispatched on a mission to convince his old friend ANAKIN WHITESUN to rejoin the Jedi Order. Anakin was forcefully discharged from the Order after abandoning a mission in order to return to his homeworld to help his sister Beru and her husband Owen out of a sticky situation because of the high value he places on his family above all else.

ACT 1 [TATOOINE]
A dusty little desert planet on the edge of the Outer Rim, Tatooine is an insignificant fringe colony that orbits a binary system of suns which heat the days up to extreme temperatures and dry the whole planet out. Everything on the planet is coated with dust and sandstorms are a fact of life, as are the deadly desert-dwellers and sand-creatures that the colonists have to contend with. The struggle of life is an everyday fact for inhabitants of this planet. With no significant resources to speak of and an environment that deters most people, Tatooine is politically a nothing and isn’t even technically a member of the Republic. It is a lawless world that is only saved from being overrun by criminals by the climate, the distance from any useful trade routes and the lack of anything to offer the galaxy at large.

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Upon arriving at Mos Eisley, Obi-Wan and his small taskforce of AQUILAEAN RANGERS, Force adepts who didn’t make the cut for the Jedi Order, are ambushed by a powerful team of clones, stronger than any previously encountered, and a dangerous foe, a Force-sensitive clone warrior equipped with a cybernetic breath mask and a deadly vibrosword that is able to clash with the plasma batons of the Republic forces.
The ambush leads to the death of most of Kenobi’s Rangers, however he is able to defeat the strange armored clone and force the enemy force to retreat, leaving only Kenobi and two of his Ranger companions alive. Now with a greater sense of urgency and a depleted team, head towards the Lars homestead, known to Kenobi as the home of Anakin’s sister and most likely person to know where the former Jedi now lives.
Beru knows of Obi-Wan from Anakin’s stories of his time in the Order, and advises him that Anakin will be dropping by the homestead for dinner that evening, as he is just returning from a freighter run that has taken several weeks. She invites him and his companions to join them, although Owen grumbles a bit about the disruption. It seems that although he has no quarrels with the Republic and the reasons for the war, he does worry that the proximity of someone like Obi-Wan will draw the attention of CSA forces to Tatooine. Obi-Wan consciously decides not to inform Owen and Beru of the ambush from earlier that day and that there may still be some soldiers hunting for them. It seems Obi-Wan is not entirely as forthcoming and honest a person as he likes to pretend.
The dinner happens, and Anakin has showed up, along with his freighter partner, ZARA ARCADIA. A fringer involved in the space transport business, she and Anakin have been working on the same ship for a couple of years now. Over dinner we learn that Obi-Wan and Anakin had fought together on the front lines before, and were good friends who had simply lost contact with each other after Anakin’s discharge and Obi-Wan’s increasing role in this Clone War.
Anakin now ostensibly works as a navigator on a spice freighter, and that’s the story Beru and Owen are familiar with. Zara pilots an old tramp freighter, the Skywalker, and due to Anakin’s skill with instinctual astrogation and navigation he works as her co-pilot and navigator. His skill at astrogation substantially reduces transit time, and so the two of them are known for their fast, reliable transport services and business is doing well. Anakin seems proud of the Skywalker, boasting about it as if it were his own, but Zara shuts him up by reminding him that he lost it to her in a game of sabbaac and that she is, for all intents and purposes, his boss.
When Obi-Wan elaborates on why he is on Tatooine Anakin bluntly refuses to even consider the idea of returning to the Jedi Order. It seems that despite his friendship with Obi-Wan, there are still some issues he has yet to deal with regarding the Order and his decision to prioritise his family over his career.
After dinner, Anakin and Zara have a frank discussion with Obi-Wan regarding Anakin’s refusal to return to the Order. In truth, Anakin is also moonlighting as a smuggler and an enforcer for the HUTT CARTEL in order to work off the debts owed by Owen and Beru due to unfair loans they had to take out in order to try to get their moisture farm business up and running.
Due to his involvement with the cartel, Anakin cannot just up and leave or else there will be severe repercussions for his family, and so there is initially conflict between Obi-Wan and himself. Additionally, he has grown to enjoy the life of a cartel enforcer and the glory of being a locally-famous racer.
Despite being unwilling to join Obi-Wan again as part of the Jedi Order, the meeting is not entirely a waste of time for Obi-Wan. Because of Anakin’s fortuitous connections to the Hutt Cartel, Obi-Wan is able to convince Anakin and Zara to get him a chance to speak with someone in good sway with the Hutts. He initially plans to speak with the local crimelord on Tatooine, but later in the evening Anakin advises Obi-Wan that Jabba has refused an audience with him.
Instead, Anakin is willing to do a favour for his old friend and take him to NAR URTHHA, home of the Hutt criminal empire. Anakin is already intending to head there for an upcoming spacer-race, so it’s no big deal to him if Obi-Wan joins him. Anakin’s name as an enforcer will get Obi-Wan in the door but after that it will be all up to Obi-Wan to engineer the negotiations on behalf of the Republic for use of the Hutt hyperspace lanes, another component of the mission that Obi-Wan was dispatched for.
At the end of the evening, after Obi-Wan has left, Zara returns and admits to having eavesdropped on the conversation. She seems to be encouraging Anakin to reconsider Obi-Wan’s offer to rejoin the Order. He doesn’t want to listen to her, but she’s heard his stories of the Jedi Order and how his face looks when he tells those stories. She thinks that he could be so much more than a smuggler and a criminal enforcer. Anakin tries to protest a little but Zara has far too strong a personality to be silenced like that. She firmly tells Anakin that they’ll discuss this again, he hasn’t gotten out of it that easily.